Contemporary French and Francophone Studies/Sites

Volume 4, Issue 1

Women/Femmes

Spring 2000

Guest Co-Editor: Isabelle de Courtivron

Cover photo by Claire Bretecher

Interviews
Brigitte Roüan
Françoise Romand

Articles & Essays
Sylviane Agacinski--The Turning Point of Feminism: Against the Effacement of Women
Sylvie-Blum-Reid--Mina Tannenbaum or Something Happened
Odile Cazenave--Calixthe Beyala's Parisian Novels
Whitney Chadwick--Three Hartists/Three Women: Orlan, Annette Messaget, and Sophie Calle
Madeline Cottenet-Hage--Women in Politics
Isabelle de Courtivron--Mid-life Memoirs and the Bicultural Dilemma
Assia Djebar--A Conversation with Marguerite Yourcenar
Eric Fassin--The Politics of PACS in a Transatlantic Mirror
Geneviève Fraisse--Defense: a Path in an Era
Antoinette Fouque--Women's Democratic Personality: an Essay of Feminology
Benoîte Groult--La féminisation des noms de métier
Christiane P. Makward--Haiti on Stage: Franco-Caribbean Women Remind
Brigitte Rollet--Women and Popular Genres in France (1980s-1990s)
Michèle Sarde--Regard sur un regard: exception française ou exception américaine
Geneviève Sellier--French Actresses: from Nymphette to Mummy, via the Woman-Woman
Mariette Sineau--La Parité in Politics
Susan Rubin Suleiman--Big Bad Wolf: A Short Chapter in the Long Story of Franco-American Relations

Fiction & Poetry
Catherine Hermary-Vieille and Michèle Sarde--Le salon de conversation
Hélène Cixous--Aube partagée
Leslie Kaplan's Les prostituées philosophes